ABSTRACT Striving for competitive advantage pushes firms to innovate at a high speed along innovation contingencies and resource limitations they face. Yet, little is known about how management of contingencies such as absorptive capacity or technology radicalness can impact the innovation speed of firms. In this explorative study, we provide new empirical evidence to the innovation speed literature. We examine to what extent innovation speed is affected by organisational, technological, and relational contingencies that preoccupy firms with open innovation practices. Taking the firm perspective, we track innovation timeline and emphasise the complex trade-offs that firms encounter while innovating. Our results show that many of the contingencies, emphasised by the literature promoting innovation, could slow down its speed. Thus, strengthening competitiveness by accommodating contingencies can hinder time-critical adaptations. Furthermore, we find that innovation assets and capabilities can become liabilities for technologically innovative firms.

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根据开放式创新探索组织、技术和关系突发事件对创新速度的影响

摘要 争取竞争优势促使企业在面临创新突发事件和资源限制的情况下进行高速创新。然而，对于吸收能力或技术激进性等突发事件的管理如何影响公司的创新速度，我们知之甚少。在这项探索性研究中，我们为创新速度文献提供了新的经验证据。我们研究了创新速度在多大程度上受到组织、技术和关系突发事件的影响，这些突发事件使公司专注于开放式创新实践。从公司的角度来看，我们跟踪创新时间表并强调公司在创新时遇到的复杂权衡。我们的结果表明，促进创新的文献强调的许多偶然性可能会减慢其速度。因此，通过适应突发事件来增强竞争力可能会阻碍时间紧迫的适应。此外，我们发现创新资产和能力可以成为技术创新公司的负债。